He [Geoffrey de Lucy] married, in 1207, Juliane, widow of Piers DE STOKES, steward to King John (dead s.p. by August 1206), and daughter of Aymer LE DESPENSER, by Amabel or Maud, daughter and coheir of Walter DE CHESNEY, by Eve DE BROC (j), daughter and heir of Eustace. She was living in 1227. He died in 1234. 1
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Geoffrey de Lucy was rewarded by King John, for his assistance against the rebellious Barons, with divers manors, previously in the possession of the king's enemies, and amongst others with part of the lands of Almaric Despenser, his father-in-law: and he obtained, according to Browne Willis's account, the manor of Cublington amongst that inheritance. 2
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[In] 1207...Geoffrey de Lucy undertook to pay 3000 marks `for having to wife Juliana, the widow of Peter de Stokes, with all her land ...’, his 103 pledges included the earls of Salisbury and Oxford, the bishop of Norwich, and leading royal servants like Robert de Vieuxpont, William de Briouze and Walter de Lacy, guaranteeing sums of between forty and 100 marks, while many of his lesser sureties undertook to pay between ten and twenty marks if Geoffrey defaulted.
Since Geoffrey de Lucy had specifically made his fine for the land as well as the person of his wife, under the Windsor ordinance all his sureties risked having their estates sequestrated if payment was not made, helping to explain why Clause 9 placed restrictions on the demands that could be made of sureties, and also why some men paid to avoid or reduce them – the earl of Arundel, who had accepted responsibility for 100 marks of Geoffrey’s debt, was recorded as owing a good palfrey (the equivalent of about twenty marks in cash) and a Norwegian goshawk to be quit of being a pledge (de plegiagio) for forty marks, thus reducing his liability to have his lands seized in the event of Geoffrey’s defaulting on his debt....
After the death of the Berkshire landowner Roger de St John, around 1213, Geoffrey de Lucy undertook to pay 300 marks for the wardship and marriage of Roger’s heir, on condition that whatever had been taken from the estate should be allowed him as part of the fine. The sheriff of Berkshire proceeded to account for £35. 2s. 9d. from the dead man’s chattels, which he had taken even though there is no clear evidence that Roger owed anything to the crown when he died....
King John himself acknowledged the distinction between will and law, and equated the latter with judgment, when in 1213 he ordered the justiciar to make inquiry as to whether Geoffrey de Lucy had been disseised of the Kentish manor of Newington `by our will or by the judgment of our court’....
Perhaps it is not surprising that a government which so often had recourse to violent methods, and spoke in angry and aggressive terms, should sometimes have become confused about its own intentions. It was noted above how in 1213 John himself found it necessary, or advisable, to order the justiciar to investigate whether Geoffrey de Lucy had been disseised of the Kentish manor of Newington `by our will or by judgment of our court’, suggesting that he had overlooked, or forgotten, his own charter of 1204 granting the manor to Geoffrey... 3
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Sep 1218, Hertford
Geoffrey de Lucy and Juliana, his wife, sued the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England (the Knights Hospitallers), for the advowson of the Church of Wiginton, as the right of Juliana. 4
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Feet of Fines
CP 25/1/203/5, number 48.
County: Hampshire.
Place: Winchester.
Date: 3 weeks from Easter Day, 12 Henry III [16 April 1228].
Parties: William le Canteis, plaintiff, and Geoffrey de Lucy, defendant.
Property: 2 acres and 11s. rent, with appurtenances, in Cosham [in Widley and Wymering], whence an assize of mort d'ancestor was summoned between them in the court.
Agreement: William acknowledged that the land, rent and appurtenances were Geoffrey's by right for Geoffrey and his heirs to hold of William and his heirs, in perpetuity, paying annually 2s. at Michaelmas, for all except forinsec service. In return, Geoffrey gave William 3 and a half marks.
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30 Jan 1229, Westminster
To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has committed his manor of Titchfield to his beloved and faithful Geoffrey de Lucy to hold at farm for one year, namely for one year from the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the thirteenth year, rendering £15 to the king....
8 Nov 1229, Westminster
The king, for his good and faithful service, has pardoned to Geoffrey de Lucy and his heirs up to the sum of 700 m. of all of the debts that he owed him, until Friday next before Martinmas in the fourteenth year, concerning which 700 m. the king has granted, for himself and his heirs, that Geoffrey and his heirs may render £10 per annum at the Exchequer until the aforesaid debt is paid in full, namely 100s. at the Exchequer of Easter and 100s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas....
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 13 Hen. III, 101, 14 Hen. III, 7
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11 Jun 1234
De seisina de terrarum.—Eodem modo mandatum est G. Marescallo, comiti Penbr', pro Gaufrido de Lucy de terris et tenementis suis in Kaerwent'...
Calendar of Close Rolls, 18 Hen. III, p. 447
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29 Sep 1242, Bordeaux
The king has granted to Geoffrey de Lucy that he and his heirs may render 100s. to him each year for the debts of Geoffrey de Lucy, his father, at the same terms at which the aforesaid Geoffrey was accustomed to render £10 for the aforesaid debts at the same Exchequer.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 26 Hen. III
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